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Key Benefit: Written for the non-science major, this book emphasizes modern physics and the scientific processóand engages readers by drawing connections between physics and everyday experience. Hobson takes a conceptual approach, with an appropriate focus on quantitative skills. The Fifth Edition increases coverage of key environmental topics such as global warming and energy, and adds new topics such as momentum. Hobsonís book remains the least expensive book available for readers taking nonmajors physics.

Key Topics: The Way of Science: Experience and Reason, Atoms: The Nature of Things, How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions, Why Things Move as They Do, Newtonís Universe, Conservation of Energy: You Canít Get Ahead, Second Law of Thermodynamics: and you Canít Even Break Even, Light and Electromagnetism, Electromagnetism Radiation and Global Climate Change, The Special Theory of Relativity, The General Theory of Relativity and the New Cosmology, The Quantum Idea, The Quantum Universe, The Nucleus and Radioactivity: An New Force, Fusion and Fission: and a New Energy, The Energy Challenge, Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum.

Market: Intended for those interested in learning the basics of physics.

Part 1: Prelude: Of Stars and AtomsCh 1: The Way of Science: Experience and ReasonCh 2: Atoms: The Nature of Things

Part 3: Transition to the New Physics Ch 6: Conservation of Energy: You Can’t Get AheadCh 7: Second Law of Thermodynamics: and you Can’t Even Break EvenCh 8: Light and ElectromagnetismCh 9: Electromagnetism Radiation and Global Climate Change

Part 4: The Post-Newtonian Universe: The Observer IntrudesCh 10: The Special Theory of RelativityCh 11: The General Theory of Relativity and the New CosmologyCh 12: The Quantum IdeaCh 13: The Quantum Universe

Part 5: Within the Atom: Fire of the Nucleus, Fire of the SunCh 14: The Nucleus and Radioactivity: An New ForceCh 15: Fusion and Fission: and a New EnergyCh 16: The Energy ChallengeCh 17: Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum